Kanizu: Engelska 2004

(For US customer $ 10) Kanizu is the first collection of short stories by Moniru Ravanipur, one of the best-known and most highly regarded post-revolutionary Persian fiction writers. In the stories of Kanizu, the reader will find the distinguishing features of the work of Moniru Ravanipur that now carry her artistic signature as innovative and highly inventive and creative. The most important of these features is perhaps her novel experimental approach to the art of the narrative. Ravanipur belongs to that group of modern writers whose works lean to some extent toward the abstract, not merely for the sake of abstraction, but to convey complexity, the complexity of modern life. Concern for the lot of women in general and the lives of Iranian women in particular, writing about the lives and beliefs of the people of her own birth place, the village of Jofreh and the people of southern Iran, and delving into the psyche of artists and writers, particularly women writers, are among the themes of RavanipurYs stories. The stories in the present collection in fact appear to contain the seeds of her later work. The title story \Kanizu] begins with the death of a small-town prostitute tol